Sentences with phrase «doors of a district school»

Every child that walks through the doors of a district school brings a pot of money with them.

Not exact matches

«The Arlington Heights Park District has experienced a «recreation renaissance» of sorts over the past few years especially since opening the doors to the new Pioneer Park Community Center in 2008 and since unveiling the cooperatively installed and managed synthetic turf field with District 214 at Hersey High School in 2011,» said Maryfran Leno, Park Board President.

Financial struggles at home don't stop at the schoolhouse door, said Keith Pain, superintendent of Frankfort's Summit Hill School District 161, where the number of students eating free and discounted lunches climbed from 162 in August 2008 to 215 in April.

The amount of MNP money that a school district receives varies from one community to another; in 2009 - 10, Oakland got about 16 cents, while next door in Berkeley, the amount was more like $ 1.40.

But the school board pursued his removal based on the sharing of information from a closed - door executive session of the board, arguing it helped undermine the district during its negotiations with the teachers union for a new contract.

Rochester City School District teachers and staff went door - to - door Thursday, visiting roughly 200 students who missed more than 10 percent of school lastSchool District teachers and staff went door - to - door Thursday, visiting roughly 200 students who missed more than 10 percent of school lastschool last year.

An «irate voter» kicked doors and a table before leaving the Eugene Auer Elementary School, the Middle Country Central School District in Centereach wrote Wednesday in a letter to the county Board of Elections.

Dec. 29: A state audit finds the district awarded $ 1.3 million in contracts without going through the bidding process, overpaid Superintendent Susan Johnson by $ 32,769 for the 2012 - 13 school year, routinely held closed - door meetings to the exclusion of the public and failed to screen and provide services for some special - needs children.

Jan. 7: The school board, with the district's contract with Superintendent Susan Johnson to expire at the end of June, interviews candidates for schools chief behind closed doors.

June 30: The school board — following a series of closed - door legal hearings since its June 8 action — votes 3 - 1 to remove Johnson as trustee after finding he had disclosed the names and addresses of district employees in violation of district policy.

«And we would seek to open our doors and bring in more of the children in the community around our churches and improve the rate with the school district,» noted Kinzer Pointer, President and Chief Executive Officer, Greater Buffalo United Ministries.

The New York State board of Regents, after a lengthy closed door session, chose MaryEllen Elia, a former western New York school teacher who was most recently the superintendent of a large school district in Florida.

«They had door - to - door transportation,» Mary «Neva» Helms, recalls of the free bus service provided at the time by the Jefferson Parish, La., school district to private school children in this large suburban area outside New Orleans.

The Western Pennsylvania Cyber Charter School (WPCCS) opened its virtual doors in the fall of 2000 as Pennsylvania's second cybercharter and the first to offer its services across district lines.

According to the Center for Education Reform, as of January 2003 there were nearly 2,700 charter schools serving more than 684,000 students in 36 states and the District of Columbia, just a decade after the first charter opened its doors.

These parents knocked on the doors of other parents living in the Compton school district, inviting them to sign a petition to convert McKinley Elementary School to a charter sschool district, inviting them to sign a petition to convert McKinley Elementary School to a charter sSchool to a charter schoolschool.

However, he affirmed the district - court ruling that teachers and aides repeatedly bringing the child to a closed - door «timeout room,» as well as alleged instances of physical abuse at school, did not rise to constitutional violations because they did not «shock the conscience.»

From the classroom, to the school, to the district, open the doors of your practice and grow together.

The district describes its approach as a philosophy, not a package that is delivered to the door of schools.

In Montomery County, Md., a suburban school district outside of Washington, D.C. with over 150,000 students and an annual budget of $ 2.4 billion, most people probably couldn't answer these questions because much of the work of the school board seems to take place behind closed doors.

States and school districts that opened their doors to students displaced by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita are anxiously watching the fate of $ 650 million in a potential second round of federal aid to cover the costs of educating such students.

So if a district has two high schools — one serving mostly affluent white students and another serving mostly poor and minority students — those schools had better offer a similar number of AP courses, lest the OCR come knocking on their doors.

The 23,500 - student district is in the third year of a collaborative project with the nonprofit Providence After School Alliance that enables students to earn digital badges and even course credit for experiences that take place beyond the schoolhouse doors.

Failing schools and districts are characterized by a revolving door of principals and teachers.

This provision opens the door to implementing district - wide strategies focused on improving the quality of education provided in schools that are identified for comprehensive support and improvement.

[The politics of rationing education is a reason why districts and other traditionalists also oppose the expansion of public charter schools and other forms of school choice that are helping Black and Latino children attain high quality education; charters fall outside of the control of districts and therefore, open the doors of opportunity for those historically denied great teachers and college - preparatory curricula.]

Richard Ingersoll, who has studied the issue for years, says there's a revolving door of teacher turnover that costs school districts upwards of $ 2.2 billion a year.

Rees: A local school district does not tell charters when to open or close their doors, what kind of curriculum to use, what company to contract for food or paper.

Additionally, several of the large charter school networks, including Uncommon Schools, KIPP, Achievement First and Success have opened their doors and shared many aspects of their successful programs with district and other charter leaders.

Benjamin Fenton, the founder of New Leaders, a New York City - based group that trains aspiring principals and consults on school and district leadership, said the district's focus on school - level leadership, and philanthropic investment from local and national foundations, had brought his organization to the city in 2004 and opened the doors for others since.

The controversial gutted - and - amended SB95, which has seen 40 + versions behind closed doors and would create a charter - managed Achievement School District comprising some of North Carolina's lowest performing schools, looks to be on the move for public debate in the waning days of the 2015 legislative session.

As the City Council holds a hearing this afternoon on three resolutions aimed to cap and slow the co-location of public schools, district and charter school leaders who share facilities are speaking up about their experience co-locating with other public schools; collaboration, community building and putting kids first are recurring themes among all of them, demonstrating that educators know to check politics at the door.

That opened the door for alternative forms of public education, such as charter schools that shifted control from the Orleans Parish School Board into the hands of parents and a state agency, the Recovery School District.

Rep. Rob Bryan (R - Mecklenburg) pushed hard for months behind closed doors to pitch a proposal to his colleagues that would have created an «achievement school district» in which some of North Carolina's lowest performing schools would be placed, teachers and staff at those schools could be fired, and the schools would be subject to the management of for - profit (or not - for - profit, too) charter school operators tasked with bringing them up into the ranks of the state's top performers.

She hung a shower curtain on a bathroom stall when none of them had doors and then took larger action to build a partnership with other parents that enabled them to develop a compelling case that the school district's board members could not ignore.

The proposal to create an «achievement school district» that wrests control of low - performing schools away from local school boards and into the hands of charter operators is being developed behind closed doors as the legislative session marches on, with numerous lawmakers and advocates working in tandem on successive drafts of the legislation.

While the average private - sector worker with paid leave has 16 days off in paid holidays and vacation, the largest school districts shut their doors for an average of 29 days each school year.

VIDEO from NBCPhiladelphia.com: The Philadelphia School District admits its security at schools could be improved after staff members at two out of five schools unlocked their doors and let a reporter in without asking any questions.

Many for - profit providers of the tutoring, known in the NCLB law as supplemental education services, have had to pursue new K - 12 revenue streams, or even close their doors, as federal funding funneled through affected school districts is being reallocated for other purposes.

Seven school districts would not be able to take advantage of the proposal because of recent referendum rejections including Chilton, Darlington, Howard - Suamico and Southern Door.

This program is an example of how school districts across the state are opening doors to families and communities, and providing them the information that will enable them to engage in important decisions across the district.

In Camden, Mr. Murphy, the state takeover has injected hope into a school district long - plagued by abysmal student achievement despite piles of money and a revolving door of school leaders.

But the AFT will never make that argument because it opens up the door for expanding choice, voucherizing school funding, and putting traditional districts from which the union draws its very existence out of business.

The attitude many of us have about charter schools is not based on union concerns but on the fact that charter schools have proven that they can not or will not provide educational services to every single child who walks through the door, which is something that district schools must do.

In a special session of the Louisiana Legislature less than two months after the storm, with much of the population still displaced, lawmakers significantly changed the threshold for «failing» and allowed for the takeover of a failing district — a clear response to a school system in crisis that couldn't even open its doors.

«There are far too few counselors, librarians, and other HHS staff to serve the needs of the District's 651,000 K - 12 students,» it said, adding that it was «particularly alarming that there is not a full time nurse at every school while a measles outbreak is right at the door of LAUSD.

In a large urban setting, a gift of $ 5000 can open the door to music leadership throughout 20 schools in a big district.

The state supreme court barred the legislature from diverting funds that it had already committed to meet the basic funding requirements of the district school system, but otherwise left the door open to various funding possibilities.

With the licensure process altered, school districts could make better use of part - timers and volunteers who want to help schools but currently aren't allowed in the door.

For years, OCO leaders have phone banked and door knocked to bring hundreds of millions of dollars into Oakland Unified School District